Install

Alternative forms

• enstall
• instal (less common spelling)

Origin

From Middle English installen, from Old French installer, from Medieval Latin installō ("to install, put in place, establish"), from in- + stallum ("stall"), from Frankish *stall ("stall, position, place"), from Proto-Germanic *stallaz ("place, position"), from Proto-Indo-European *stelǝ-, *stAlǝn-, *stAlǝm- ("stem, trunk"). Cognate with Old High German stal ("location, stall"), Old English steall ("position, stall"), Old English onstellan ("to institute, create, originate, establish, give the example of"), Middle High German anstalt ("institute"), German anstellen ("to conduct, employ"), German einstellen ("to set, adjust, position"), Dutch aanstellen ("to appoint, commission, institute"), Dutch instellen ("to set up, establish"). More at in, stall.

Full definition of install

Verb

1. (transitive) To connect, set up or prepare something for use.
• 2013-06-21, Chico Harlan, Japan pockets the subsidy …, Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."
2. I haven't installed the new operating system yet because of all the bugs.
3. (transitive) To admit formally into an office, rank or position.
   He was installed as Chancellor of the University.
4. (transitive) To establish or settle in.
   I installed myself in my usual chair by the fire.

Antonyms

• uninstall

Related terms

• installation

Noun

1. (informal) Installation. (Usage originated as a truncated form of the word installation.)
2. (computing) (jargon) A computer software utility that is run to install a software application. Also used attributively.After inserting the disk, you need to run the install.But I can't find the install disk.